Table 4.

Follicular gastritis patients compared with lymphoid aggregates and with normal specimens

	Follicular gastritis (n = 43)	Lymphoid aggregates (n = 35)	Normal specimens (n = 90)	P
Age (M, SD)	37.1 ± 9.4	32.4 ± 8.7	35.2 ± 8.5	0.067
BMI (M, SD)	48.3 ± 10.9	44.8 ± 7.2	47.2 ± 8	0.209
Gender (n, %)				0.39
Male	10 (23.3)	13 (37.1)	25 (27.8)
Female	33 (76.7)	22 (62.9)	65 (72.2)
H. pylori (n, %)				<0.0001
Positive	37 (86)	26 (74.3)	3 (3.3)
Negative	6 (14)	9 (25.7)	87 (96.7)

M mean, SD standard deviation